Drat! The Cat!
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Opened May 10, 2005
Closed May 22, 2005
Opened May 10, 2005
Closed May 22, 2005
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Musicals Tonight presents Drat! The Cat!, a musical mystery by Ira Levin (Death Trap, No Time for Sergeants, Rosemary's Baby) and Milton Schafer (Bravo Giovanni) about a cat burglar who brazenly preys on New York society's elite at the turn of the last century. Two of the shows songs became Barbra Streisand hits - "He Touched Me" and "I Like Him."
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In the gallery of 1960s musical megaflops, one title has always aroused special curiosity. Drat! the Cat! opened at the Martin Beck on October 10, 1965 and was gone in less than a fortnight. Yet this big musical comedy set in the 1890s, with an original book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer, netted some very positive reviews (Walter Kerr, for one, liked it quite a lot) along with the pans, and its score yielded a hit song ("She Touched Me").
In the 1980s, the Blue Pear label released on LP a scratchy live recording made during the brief Broadway run, and one can clearly hear the audience adoring the show. They're entranced with leading lady Lesley Ann Warren in the role o[...]